Meanwhile in the UK defence minister John Healey says “People who get their feet wet must learn to take their medicine." "When the world turns upside down, the best thing to do is turn right along with it." "Everything is possible, even the impossible." "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”

Arf.

AI has all but shut down the routes to proving yourself via grunt work in so many industries. All the best juniors I trained came in via that way. They didn’t have the social connections or money to position themselves for the success they proved more than capable of, AI is gutting social mobility

ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

More messaging like this.

Here’s a thought - if someone is proud enough of the food they cooked or the thing they made to take a picture and put it on here just either say something enthusiastic and kind or say nothing.

Spring is here !

Beautiful track from Fionn Maris. Takes you off to the stars. fionnmaris.bandcamp.com/track/superl...

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

It will make a good “24 hours in police custody” episode.

Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

"‘Bela Lugosi Is Dead’ was the most hilarious song you’d ever imagine! An 11-minute soliloquy about Bela Lugosi! We did it seriously, and that was hilarious, too. I’d affect a vampire on stage and frighten people. It was incredibly funny.”

An excuse to remind you of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGo...

Stewart Lee just cited Cathar theology & Wittgenstein’s duck/rabbit paradox. to illustrate the difficulty of framing true political statements. (BBC R.4 : Strong Message Here) I like a comedian who doesn’t dumb down!

When this is all over, every single person who voted for and enabled him should be forced to pay reparations and make a daily apology to the rest of the world.

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

Musk is laughing at us. There is *nothing* that’s decent or free or safe about being on X. The only responsible ‘counter narrative’ to stem the profound damage X is doing to society and democracy is to leave it, or - better still - to shut it down. (Private Eye)

“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?” For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid. Because I care about people. You dipshit.

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

A Spaniel in John Lewis.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Private Eye cartoon of mine from early 2024.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Like many "feel good" stories of individuals performing acts of kindness, I'm grateful for the individual, but angry and heartbroken that we live in a society that doesn't guarantee the minimum resources to live a life without constant suffering and struggle.

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines: Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty But no... "The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career" FML

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Haaaaaaa!! Quite sad really.

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

This is great!!

Also incredibly energy efficient. IIRC Francis Drake got 36,000 miles to the galleon I won’t even take my coat off.

Arf

Respect to RTD for quickly casting Piper as the new Doctor Who, before the BBC could give it to Farage.

Happy 7th birthday to this (sadly) evergreen Phoenix magazine #cartoon #makethebillionairespay #greed #taxevasion

Shooting films in foreign countries is a “national security threat”?!? He is certifiable. And astonishingly stupid.

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Some slo-mo blossom for a sunny Friday.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen